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INVEVNT Y Melvin H. Da via ATTORNE Patented Dec. 23, 1930 onrrsn STATES MELVIN H. DAVIS, F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON CALENDAR Application filed April 13,

This invention relates to improvements in calendars and more particularly to such devices as include appropriate spaces upon which data is to be written. The principal object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which exposes the calendar months in regular sequence, combining means to avoid the necessity of tearing off leaves as the year progresses, so that reference to the dates is convenient either forward or backward, and also providing means whereby at the end of the calendar year the leaves in their entirety may be folded back into book form, appropriately labeled and filed away for future reference. An important feature of the invention is the method of printing and assembling the sheets whereby a great deal of time and labor is saved. I accomplish these and other objects of my invention by the peculiar arrangement and combination of the parts as will be more fully hereinafer described and explained in the following speciiication, shown in the accompanying drawings and finally pointed out in the appended F claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view showing the leaves folded as at the beginning of the year.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the leaves as they appear during the first month of the year.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view indicating the manner of detaching the calendar proper from its base sheet or support.

Fig. 4 is a view of the undermost one of the assembly of sheets showing the manner of the printing process.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, reference numeral 1 indicates a base sheet which I prefer to form of cardboard or like material of suitable thickness and which may be ornamented as indicated at 2, and may bear advertising matter as shown. The baseboard is scored or perforated as indicated at 3 for a purpose presently to be de scribed. 4 indicates clips which may be either permanently affixed to the baseboard or may be any approved form of portable wire or sheet metal clip. If the clips 4 be rigidly mounted upon the base sheet 1, then 1929. Serial No. 354,732.

all that is necessary in order to successively expose the sheets as the year progresses, is to fold back the first sheet from its position as seen in Fig. 1 into its position as seen in Fig. 2, merely thrusting the edge of the sheet under the clip. The base sheet is scored rather lightly along the lines indicated at 5 and just to the left of the center of the base sheet. 6 indicates one of the calendar leaves or sheets as it comes from the printing press.

It will be noted that the left hand side of the sheet is printed with data appropriate to the first half of January, andthe other half with data appropriate to the latter part of Dec'ember, so that the first half of the sheet will combine with the first half of a similar sheet to show a proper arrangement of the dates for the month of January; while in the usual method of printing calendar leaves, the dates for an entire month are printed on each sheet. By my improved method of printing and assembling, the data for half of a month is printed on half of agiven sheet, while the data for the latter half of that month is printed on the undermost surface of the first half of the following sheet, exactly as leaves are printed for pamphlet work. In assembling, all that is necessary is to pile the sheets oneupon another, beginning with the J anuary-December sheet' with its printed side upward, then layingthe next sheet of the December-January sheet with its printed side downward and so on. It will be noted that one side of each leaf is left blank for the reception of data. The entire assembly of sheets may be secured to the base sheet 1 along the line indicated at 7, either by stitching, gluing, riveting, or any other approved means. 7 p

The operation of the device is that at the beginning of the year the user folds back the sheet which appears in Fig. 1 to its position as seen in Fig. 2, slipping the outer edge of the sheet under the clip 4, thus presenting to view a correct calendar arrangement for January. If items occur during the month of January, making it desirable to jot down memoranda in connection with the month of January, the right hand sheet, as viewed in Fig. 2 is turned back upon the other half of January, the memoranda jotted down and the first mentioned sheet returned to its position as seen in Fig. 2, and so on. At the end of the year the user bends the base sheet 1 along the scored or perforated line 3 which permits easy and convenient separation of the upper part of the base sheet from its lower part. The user now folds that portion of the heavy base board sheet upon the right hand side of the scores 5 over upon that portion of the sheet to the left of the scores whereby a bound book with a protective cover, and containing all of the data for that year, results. The book may then be labeled with its year and filed away for future reference.

lVhile I have shown a particular form of embodiment of my invention, I am aware that many minor changes therein will readily suggest themselves to others skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. I therefore desire to avoid being limited to the exact form of embodiment which I have herein shown and described.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

1. A calendar comprising a base provided with a score line substantially midway of its length, a series of monthly calendars arranged in book form secured to said base on one side of said score line, means for holding said calendar leaves in open position, said score line permitting of the base portion holding said calendars to be torn off and bent around said calendars to provide a closure for the calendar whereby it may be filed in book form for future reference.

2. A calendar comprising a base provided with a score line substantially midway of its length, a series of monthly calendars arranged in book form and secured at their vertical center line to said base on one side of said score line, means for holding said calendar leaves in open position, said score line permitting of the base portion holding said calendar to be torn off and bent around said calendar to provide a closure for the calendar whereby it may be filed in book form for future reference.

3. A calendar comprising a base provided with a score line, a series of monthly calendars arranged in book form secured at their vertical center line to said base on one side of said score line, said score line permitting of the base portion holding said calendars to be torn off and bent around said calendar to provide a closure for the calendar whereby it may be filed in book form for future reference.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

MELVIN H. DAVIS. 

